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=== Ecosystem monitoring ===
''Main article: [[Ecosystem Monitoring]]''
 
Monitoring the nature's health is a key element in policies surrounding its protection. Advancements in machine learning and remote sensing allow us to scale measurement, reporting and verification processes at an unprecedented scale.
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==='''Land use management'''===
Main article: ''[[Land Use Management]]''
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* Automating afforestation
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== Background Readings ==
 
=== OtherKey documents ===
[https://www.ipcc.ch/srccl/ Special Report on Climate Change and Land — IPCC site]
 
*'''"Monitoring tropical forest carbon stocks and emissions using Planet satellite data" (2019)'''<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Csillik|first=Ovidiu|last2=Kumar|first2=Pramukta|last3=Mascaro|first3=Joseph|last4=O’Shea|first4=Tara|last5=Asner|first5=Gregory P.|date=2019-11-28|title=Monitoring tropical forest carbon stocks and emissions using Planet satellite data|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-54386-6|journal=Scientific Reports|volume=9|issue=1|doi=10.1038/s41598-019-54386-6|issn=2045-2322}}</ref>: An example of carbon stock estimation from satellite imagery.
*'''"Characterizing agricultural drought in the Karamoja subregion of Uganda with meteorological and satellite-based indices" (2018)'''<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Nakalembe|first=Catherine|date=2018-02-10|title=Characterizing agricultural drought in the Karamoja subregion of Uganda with meteorological and satellite-based indices|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11069-017-3106-x|journal=Natural Hazards|volume=91|issue=3|pages=837–862|doi=10.1007/s11069-017-3106-x|issn=0921-030X}}</ref>: A study of drought phenomena using remote sensing data.
*'''"Remote Sensing Northern Lake Methane Ebullition" (2020)'''<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Engram|first=M.|last2=Walter Anthony|first2=K. M.|last3=Sachs|first3=T.|last4=Kohnert|first4=K.|last5=Serafimovich|first5=A.|last6=Grosse|first6=G.|last7=Meyer|first7=F. J.|date=2020-05-11|title=Remote sensing northern lake methane ebullition|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-0762-8|journal=Nature Climate Change|volume=10|issue=6|pages=511–517|doi=10.1038/s41558-020-0762-8|issn=1758-678X}}</ref>: A study relating methane emissions estimates from airplanes and satellite imagery.
 
== Online Courses and Course Materials ==
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* [https://www.nature.org/en-us/ The Nature Conservancy] is a non-profit environmental organisation that has over one million members, and has protected more than 119,000,000 acres (48,000,000 ha) of land and thousands of miles of rivers worldwide
* [https://www.iucn.org/ The International Union for Conservation of Nature] (IUCN) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.
*[https://www.southpole.com/ SouthPole], develops and finance projects around the world to reduce carbon emissions and protect biodiversity
* SouthPole
*[https://www.goldstandard.org/ GoldStandard], is a third-party certification agency that ensures projects that reduced carbon emissions featured the highest levels of environmental integrity and also contributed to sustainable development
* GoldStandard
*[https://www.worldwildlife.org/ WWF]
* WWF
*[https://www.worldbank.org/ World Bank]
*[https://www.1t.org/ 1t.org]
*[http://www.mangrovealliance.org/ Global Mangrove Alliance]
 
=== Major initiatives ===
 
* [https://www.unenvironment.org/news-and-stories/press-release/new-un-decade-ecosystem-restoration-offers-unparalleled-opportunity UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration]
 
== Libraries and Tools ==
Some packages forand workingtools withthat remotesupport sensingmachine datalearning-based forestry work are,
 
*[https://www.globalforestwatch.org/ GlobalForestWatch], is a dynamic online forest monitoring and alert system that empowers people everywhere to better manage forests
*'''eo-learn''': A python package maintained by the European Space Agency, giving easy access to imagery from Sentinel satellites, as well as utilities for data processing, available [https://github.com/sentinel-hub/eo-learn here].
*[https://www.globalmangrovewatch.org/ GlobalMangroveWatch], monitors to catalyse the action needed to protect and restore mangroves
*'''robosat''': A package maintained by mapbox, available [https://github.com/mapbox/robosat here].
*[https://trase.earth/ Trase.Earth] provides a dynamic supply chain visualisations for land change drivers and commodities
*'''solaris''': A package from CosmiQ Works (SpaceNet Challenge), available [https://solaris.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ here].
*[https://resourcetrade.earth/ Resourcetrade.Earth] features Chatham House’s extensive and authoritative database of international trade in natural resources, developed from United Nations data
*[http://www.openforis.org/tools/collect-earth.html Collect Earth] is a free, open source, and user-friendly tool using Google Earth Engine to visualize and analyze plots of land in order to assess deforestation and other forms of land-use-change
*[https://github.com/weecology/DeepForest DeepForest], is a python package for tree crown detection in airborne RGB imagery
*[https://github.com/ulaval-damas/tree-bark-classification BarkNet], is an open-source tree bark classification algorithm and dataset
 
== Data ==
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